105 - Places to know before dying: Massive turtles arrival in the beach of Ostional, Costa Rica

105 - Places to know before dying: Massive turtles arrival in the beach of Ostional, Costa Rica

On January 17, 2010 at 15:33 (Places to know before dying, More histories of the Return to the World!!!, Rolling about South America, We Go towards Alaska!!!, nature) (earlier, arrived, baula, tortoiseshell, centroamerica, to eat, eaten, to know, coast, rich coast, information, where to go, spectacularly, spectacles, guanacaste, guardaparques, egg of turtle, hard-boiled egg, fried egg, boiled egg, eggs, info, information, unforgettably, female parrot, places, Places to know before dying, sea, marina, marinas, massive, before to die, world cup, world, national, native, nature, pacific ocean, ocean, ostional, I appease, beach, which to do, that to see, chelonians, compilation of eggs, reserves, national reservation ostional, rich, routes, marine routes, turtles, marine turtles)

Massive turtles arrival to the beach of Ostional, Costa Rica (photo www.informa-tico.com)

Once a month, for two, three or four days, the Ostional beach is the base of the spectacular, only meeting, which amazes to all the lucky ones that were happening over there. Days before the new moon, a dark brown fleet of thousands of turtles come to ground to spawn in the same place where they were born.

They are exhausted and are so many people, and so many people, and so many people, that the authorities of the National Reservation Ostional allow the eggs compilation for consumption to the neighbors of the community during the first two or three days.

This that looks like an atrocity has a simple explanation: every turtle deposits approximately 100 eggs in a nest that they excavate in the sand. To the credit so many turtles, which come later do a hole where there is already another nest and they break his eggs turning the beach into an enormous sickening omelette of flies, egg yolk of unborn turtle and infections.

(Consequence: the turtle fried egg has not anything in common with the funk's fried egg. It is a pure egg yolk and very thickly, almost like butter)

(Curious paradox: in the most conservationist country of America it is legal to eat turtle eggs)

(Proposed meanwhile: undoubtedly, it would be better to put the eggs in incubators and to take them to other beaches where there are no turtles …) (Problem: the local tradition of eating turtle eggs because supposedly it gives major sexual potency to the man)

We only manage to see approximately 30 turtles female parrot coming together at one o'clock in the morning. And only 30 turtles, I assure them, it is already an exciting spectacle.

BUNDLE CLICK HERE TO FIND MORE PLACES TO KNOW BEFORE DYING